DIY
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:12 am
Anybody working with any kind of DIY hardware (and stuff you know)? It's a pretty interesting topic.
As most of you probably know monitor placement is of great importance, but so is the thing you put them on.
I'm currently thinking of getting myself some materials to make monitor stands (these ones look pretty neat).
Here are some other DIY monitor stands to check out: Yesterday I made myself a homemade pop-filter (here's how one looks though mine is a bit crappier because my microphone stand is awkwardly engineered). If anybody's interested in the DIY pop-filter I can post the pictures to how it's made. All you need is wire, hose and this (if somebody can tell me what its name is in English i'd be grateful
we call it a cable shoe here).
I was also going through some books a month ago, and "Electronic Projects for Musicians" by Craig Anderton looked like a pretty neat book. Pretty cool projects (preamp, compressor/limiter, ring modulator, phase shifter, talk box, 8 in 1 out mixer, headphone amp, footswich and so on). I read through some of the projects, the author kept insisting on the fact that people who have never even soldered could make most of them. I highly doubt that because reading through schematics is somewhat hard, but he explains most of the used symbols (if not all of them). There was also a guide to soldering, making boards and so on and on. There are of course advanced projects in the book.
I found another interesting thing to do with those binder clips laying around - especially if you're annoyed by cables falling behind your desk when you unplug them.
As most of you probably know monitor placement is of great importance, but so is the thing you put them on.
I'm currently thinking of getting myself some materials to make monitor stands (these ones look pretty neat).
Here are some other DIY monitor stands to check out: Yesterday I made myself a homemade pop-filter (here's how one looks though mine is a bit crappier because my microphone stand is awkwardly engineered). If anybody's interested in the DIY pop-filter I can post the pictures to how it's made. All you need is wire, hose and this (if somebody can tell me what its name is in English i'd be grateful
we call it a cable shoe here).I was also going through some books a month ago, and "Electronic Projects for Musicians" by Craig Anderton looked like a pretty neat book. Pretty cool projects (preamp, compressor/limiter, ring modulator, phase shifter, talk box, 8 in 1 out mixer, headphone amp, footswich and so on). I read through some of the projects, the author kept insisting on the fact that people who have never even soldered could make most of them. I highly doubt that because reading through schematics is somewhat hard, but he explains most of the used symbols (if not all of them). There was also a guide to soldering, making boards and so on and on. There are of course advanced projects in the book.
I found another interesting thing to do with those binder clips laying around - especially if you're annoyed by cables falling behind your desk when you unplug them.
